Linda Vilhjálmsdóttir

frelsi II - og við þykkasta múrinn

jezik: islandščina
Prevodi: nemščina (freiheit II - und an der dicksten mauer), poljščina (Wolność II - i przy najgrubszym murze), švedščina (friheten II - och vid den tjockaste muren)

frelsi II - og við þykkasta múrinn

og við þykkasta múrinn
þar sem tregaljóð aldanna

drukkna í háværum harmagráti
síðustu stríða

er mannkynið
klofið sundur í tvær ójafnar fylkingar

plássfreka karla
og konur sem mega náðarsamlegast gráta

og biðja
í sínu afmarkaða kerlingahorni



~

Linda Vilhjálmsdóttir

Foto © Gassi studio
* 01.06.1958, Reykjavík, Islandija
živi v: Reykjavík, Islandija
Linda Vilhjálmsdóttir, born in 1958 in Reykjavík, worked part-time for many years as a nurse in cardiac, geriatric and psychiatric wards at the Reykjavík Hospital (1978-2000).
After first publications in newspapers and literary magazines, she made her debut in 1990 with the poetry collection Bláþráður. To date, she has published seven more volumes of poetry, several plays and an autobiographical novel in 2003. 

Foto © Gassi studio
Linda Vilhjálmsdóttir has received numerous prizes and awards for her literary work, including two literary awards from the daily newspaper DV, the Jón-úr-Vör-Poesiepreis and the Prize of the Icelandic Book Trade for the best volume of poetry in 2015. The volume frelsi was also nominated for the Nordic Council's Literature Prize (2017) and brought her the title "European Poet of Freedom" 2018 in Gdansk.

Her poems have been published in various anthologies in English, Swedish, French, German and Galician.

In German the bilingual volume Alle schönen Worte / Frostschmetterlinge was published by Kleinheinrich (2011) and Freiheit im Elif Verlag (2018).
Objave

  • Bláþráður

    [poetry]

    1990

  • Klakabörnin

    [poetry]

    1992

  • Mona Lisa

    [poetry]

    Colchester: Greyhound Press, 1993

  • Valsar úr síðustu siglingu

    [poetry]

    1996

  • Öll fallegu orðin

    [poetry]

    2000

  • Lygasaga

    [novel]

    2003

  • Frostfiðrildi

    [poetry]

    2006

  • Alle schönen Worte / Frostschmetterlinge

    Isländisch / Deutsch

    Aus dem Isländischen übersetzt von Tina Flecken. Illustrationen: Aquarelle von Bernd Koberling

    Münster: Kleinheinrich, 2011

  • Frelsi

    [poetry]

    Reykjavík: Mál og mennig, 2015

  • Smáa letrið

    [poetry]

    2018

  • Freiheit

    Nettetal: Elif Verlag, 2018

  • Wolnosc

    Poland: Europejski Poeta Eolnosci, 2018

Nagrade

  • 1993 DV-newspaper’s Literary Prize

  • 2005 1st prize in the Ljóðstafur Competition, Kópavogur

  • 2010 RÚV’s (National Broadcasting Service) Yearly literary Recognition

  • 2015 Booksellers Prize for best poetry collection

  • 2015 DV-newspaper´s Literary Prize

  • 2018 European poet of freedom award for the poetry collection Frelsi, Gdansk, Poland

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